Thistle

Thistle

Dried thistle

a prairie urchin?

all pokey with spikes

a bully of a flower

defending itself

from the herbivore;

Still, it’s flower the bees need

And songbirds will eat its seeds.

Sheri Edwards  

03.23.23   083.365.23

Poetry/Photography

https://flic.kr/p/2ooSToi

Dried thistle around the property at Olmstead Place Homestead State Park near Ellensburg, WA October, 2018

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